Nitin Gadkari is the senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has been the Minister of Road Transport and Highways since 2019. He is also serving as the Union Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (2014), Shipping (2014 to 2019), Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation (2017 to 2019) and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (2019 to 2021) in the successive Narendra Modi governments. Gadkari was the president of the BJP from 2009 to 2013. He has been a Lok Sabha member from the Nagpur constituency of Maharashtra for the last two terms. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Gadkari won the Nagpur seat by defeating Congress candidate Vilas Muttemwar with a margin of 2,84,848 votes. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Gadkari retained the Nagpur constituency by defeating Congress candidate Nana Patole with a margin of 2,16,009 votes. Gadkari was the Public Works minister in Maharashtra from 1995 to 1999 and also the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Council from 1999 to 2005. Nitin Gadkari is again contesting from the Nagpur constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
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Surajkund (Haryana), Sep 28: Bowing to the wishes of the RSS, BJP today amended its constitution enabling the party president, state and district unit chiefs to get a second term, which paves the way for
New Delhi, Sep 27: BJP president Nitin Gadkari Thursday sought an apology from Mumbai-based RTI activist and India Against Corruption (IAC) member Anjali Damania for linking him with NCP chief Sharad Pawar.”I give you legal
Surajkund (Haryana), Sep 27: BJP today said it will take its fight against FDI in multi-brand retail to Parliament in the Winter session as the party feels the policy will hurt small traders and is
Surajkund (Haryana), Sep 27: Don't touch any colleague's feet in order to go up the party ladder, BJP president Nitin Gadkari said Thursday.Concerned over a culture of patronage, Gadkari declared at the party's National Council
Mumbai, Sept 27: India against Corruption (IAC) activist Anjali Damania has alleged that she met BJP president Nitin Gadkari to highlight the irrigation scam in Maharashtra but the opposition party chief tried to play it
Surajkund (Haryana), Sep 26: Corruption in the Manmohan Singh-led government is the focus of the national executive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday, party sources said.The meeting started with an address by BJP
Surajkund (Haryana), Sep 25: BJP's National Council meeting here on September 27 and 28 will clear the decks for a second consecutive term to Nitin Gadkari as party President after it gives a nod to
New Delhi, Sept 20: The Left and the Right were on the same page today with its leaders sharing stage to protest the UPA government's decision to allow FDI in retail and hike in diesel
New Delhi, Aug 23: Alleging that Congress and BJP were hand-in-glove on the coal block allocation issue, erstwhile Team Anna today announced gherao of the residences of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and BJP chief Nitin
Ahmedabad, Aug 18: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday shrugged of remarks by BJP chief Nitin Gadkari that he is one of the party's six Prime Ministerial candidates, saying he remained unaffected and that
New Delhi, Aug 16: BJP on Thursday claimed there was no divide in NDA on the issue of its Prime Ministerial candidate for 2014 parliamentary polls and said a decision will be taken only after
New Delhi, Aug 13: Sharing the dais with Ramdev, BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Monday pledged his party's "full support" to the yoga guru's agitation against black money and launched a blistering attack on the
New Delhi, Aug 13: BJP President Nitin Gadkari and JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav today shared the dais with yoga guru Ramdev, who attacked Congress and asked people to throw out the UPA government accusing it
New Delhi, Jul 14: BJP on Friday accused its opponents of attempting to dub it as an “anti-Muslim” and “anti-minority” in order to indulge in vote-bank politics.“BJP is said to be an anti-minority party. This
New Delhi, Jul 2: Demanding rejection of Pranab Mukherjee's nomination papers on the ground that he held an Office of Profit, BJP today asked Congress not to bend rules over the issue to have its
Bangalore, June 30 :Appearing unfazed by the rebellion against his leadership by the Yeddyurappa faction, Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda today expressed confidence of resolving the crisis with the intervention of the party's central
New Delhi, June 25: Irked by Balbir Punj's comment that BJP has not outsourced responsibility of defining who is secular, JD(U) president Sharad Yadav today asked his BJP counterpart Nitin Gadkari to “restrain” such members
New Delhi, Jun 25: The growing rift and war of words with key NDA ally JD(U) today led BJP president Nitin Gadkari to ask all party functionaries and alliance partners to “exercise restraint” while airing
Nagpur, Jun 25: Saying that there were no differences within NDA, BJP president Nitin Gadkari today stated that alliance partners Shiv Sena and JD (U), which are supporting the UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee in the
Mumbai, Jun 12: Observing that the Opposition of the day needs to go beyond criticism of the government, BJP President Nitin Gadkari lamented the political class has become “narrow minded” and the field of politics
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